You are a human resources supervisor at a major restaurant chain. The restaurant operates as a franchise, and a survey of branch owners discovers that there are major wage inequities throughout the chain. In a brief essay, describe what you can do to correct the existing wage inequity and describe how you could have prevented the problem.

First, we would need to find out how exactly our employees are being compensated. We need to define job roles and appropriate wages and circulate this amongst our branch owners. If we do not address this problem now, sooner or later our lower-paid employees will leave their branches for higher-paying branches or worse, leave us all together for new jobs. Our employees need to know that they are an integral part of our operation, and this should reflect itself in their wages.